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This document preceeds an IEG evaluation and provides information on the key questions, rationale, scope, and evaluation approach. Annual Review of Development Effectiveness These annual reviews are a meta-evaluation that provide a comprehensive assessment of the Bank's development effectiveness. They offer a broad assessment of the Bank's contribution to development effectiveness, drawing on project evaluations and IEG sector, thematic and country reviews.

Programmatic partnerships in which the partners dedicate resources, the activities of the program are global, regional or multicountry in scope, and the partners establish a new organization with shared governance and a management unit to deliver activities.

Resources that offer access to key findings, recommendations, lessons, and knowledge-products drawn from the World Bank Group's development experiences. These include lesson notes, briefs, summaries, cluster reports and working papers.

Completed projects are evaluated through Project Performance Assessment Reports (PPARs) and Implementation Completion Report (ICR) Reviews. They are carried out after Bank funds have been fully disbursed to a project, are similar to the completion evaluations carried out by many agencies. (to search ICR Reviews, see "Project Completion Validations")

Thematic Reviews examine Bank performance and experience in a lending sector (such as agriculture, transport, and the like) or thematic area (poverty, gender, and so forth) over five to ten years and report on their conformity to Bank policy and good practice, as well as on the development effectiveness of the Bank's activities.

This report is written to serve two purposes. It provides an evaluation of the effectiveness and relevance the World Bank's lending and non-lending activities to India as an input into the Operations Evaluation Department's (OED's) India Country Assistance Evaluation of April 23,...Full Description »

This report is written to serve two purposes. It provides an evaluation of the effectiveness and relevance the World Bank's lending and non-lending activities to India as an input into the Operations Evaluation Department's (OED's) India Country Assistance Evaluation of April 23, 2001. It also provides a case study of how the World Bank's 1993 Water Resources Management Policy and Strategy has been utilized and applied among the Bank's borrowers, and this case study is part of OED's global evaluation of the Bank's experience in implementing the water policy.
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In 1997 more than 1.1 billion people in low- and middle-income countries lacked access to safe water supplies, and far more were without adequate sanitation. Today, 166 million people in 18 countries suffer from water scarcity, while another 270 million in 11 additional countries are considered...Full Description »

In 1997 more than 1.1 billion people in low- and middle-income countries lacked access to safe water supplies, and far more were without adequate sanitation. Today, 166 million people in 18 countries suffer from water scarcity, while another 270 million in 11 additional countries are considered "water stressed". By 2025 affected populations will increase from 436 million to about 3 billion people, or about 40 percent of the world's population, most of them in the poorest countries. There is now a consensus that the severity of the problem requires a strategic approach that emphasizes equitable and sustainable management of water resources.
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The urban share of Bolivia's population has doubled since the late 1970s. Providing adequate water and sanitation services has proved a major challenge. To understand the lessons of the Bolivian experience, the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) assessed the performance of water supply...Full Description »

The urban share of Bolivia's population has doubled since the late 1970s. Providing adequate water and sanitation services has proved a major challenge. To understand the lessons of the Bolivian experience, the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) assessed the performance of water supply investments in three cities under the recently completed Major Cities Water and Sewerage Rehabilitation Project (1990-97), funded by the International Development Association (IDA). Covering 60 percent of Bolivia's urban population located in the three main cities - La Paz/El Alto, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and Cochabamba - the project built on the experi-ence of three earlier projects, as well as technical assistance to pre-pare and chart reform in the sector.
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Investments in rural water systems can have a profound impact on the economic activity and quality of life of the poor. As the Bank has increasingly focused on the poor, it has expanded work in rural water supply. Loan amounts have grown steadily, and are expected to double in the next two to three...Full Description »

Investments in rural water systems can have a profound impact on the economic activity and quality of life of the poor. As the Bank has increasingly focused on the poor, it has expanded work in rural water supply. Loan amounts have grown steadily, and are expected to double in the next two to three years. In this context, the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) launched a review of 15 Bank-supported free-standing water and sanitation projects to inform the continuing development of the Bank's approach to providing safe, clean water to rural dwellers.
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Reports that fall within the official categories of IEG's work. This includes Project-level, Corporate, Country andThematic evaluations, Global Program Reviews, Approach Papers, Annual Reviews, Evaluation Capacity Development and Impact Evaluations.

Resources that offer access to key findings, recommendations, lessons, and knowledge-products drawn from the World Bank Group's development experiences. These include lesson notes, briefs, summaries, cluster reports and working papers.